Ingram New Works Project

The Ingram New Works Project empowers exceptional new voices to write the stories they are most passionate about. Nashville Rep's Ingram New Works Project provides playwrights with season-long developmental support, travel, lodging, hospitality, networking, and audiences, allowing them to focus on what they do best: creating powerful, necessary, impactful new plays. The three pieces of the Project are the Lab, Fellowship, and a series of public readings. Since 2009, the Ingram New Works Project has supported the development of over 60 new plays. We are the playwrights’ home away from home, powered by Nashville’s authentic and radical hospitality.

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Meet The 2023/2024 Playwrights

KRISTA KNIGHT - Krista is a Juilliard Fellow, Page 73 Playwriting Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, Shank Playwriting Fellow at the Vineyard Theatre, Chance Theater Resident Playwright, and winner of the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, and the Broadway on Demand Film Festival. Plays include SLOPPY BONNIE (OZ Arts, Nashville Scene Critics Pick, Princess Grace Finalist), CRUSH (NYTimes Recommended, TimeOut Best Theater to Stream Online), LIPSTICK LOBOTOMY (Kilroys List, Trap Door Theatre), DON’T STOP ME – a musical with Dave Malloy (YMTC, Manhattan School of Music), KIRK AT THE SF AIRPORT HYATT (NYTW’s Residency), PRIMAL PLAY (New Georges), SELKIE (Williamstown, Dutch Kills) and CRIMSON LIT: SCARLET LETTER SET LIST – a musical with Jill Sobule (Polyphone Festival, Chance Theatre). Commissions include the script for a ride at Tokyo Disney, The Steinmetz Lab, an EST/Sloan Commission, and DreamWorks/Music Theatre International.  BA: Brown University. MA: Performance Studies from NYU. MFA Playwriting: UCSD.  Krista is Writer-in-Residence in Playwriting and Screenwriting at Vanderbilt University. www.KristaKnight.com

JONATHAN PAYNE - Jonathan Payne recently received a commission from The Apollo Theater and their new works initiative. His play A HUMAN BEING, OF A SORT premiered at Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2019. It starred Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner André Braugher and was directed by Obie Award winner Whitney White. In 2018, his critically acclaimed play THE REVOLVING CYCLES TRULY AND STEADILY ROLL’D premiered off-Broadway, produced by The Playwrights Realm. His work has been featured at Rattlestick Theater, NYTW, Long Wharf Theatre, Ars Nova, The Bushwick Star, and the Fire This Time Festival. Jonathan received a BA from the GSA Conservatoire (UK), an MFA in Playwriting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and an Artist Diploma in Playwriting from The Juilliard School.

LAUREN BONE NOBLE - Lauren Bone Noble is an actor, director, playwright and teaching artist. She earned her MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory and BFA from the University of Memphis. Professionally Lauren has performed both on and off Broadway, regionally at Studio Arena Theatre, The Denver Center Theatre Company, Portland Stage Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Arkansas Rep, Franklin Stage Company, Denizen Theatre, Ashland New Plays Festival, and internationally at Vienna’s English Theatre.  Television credits include Law and Order, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Guiding Light, All My Children and over 30 national network commercials. Lauren is Assistant Professor of Movement for the Actor in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Mississippi.  Most recently she developed and directed Near/Far, an exploration of loss and isolation through movement and Larval Mask.  and Dreaming Green as a part of the International Climate Change Theatre Action. Near/Far will be featured as a part of the USITT Rare and Belonging exhibit at the 2023 Prague Quadrennial. Lauren has taught workshops at Vassar College, Niagara College, Queens College and Rhodes and served as contingent faculty at the State University of New York at New Paltz for nine years.  While there she developed and directed her gender bent Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Servant of Two Masters and parts 1 -3 of The Every 28 Hours Plays. At New Paltz Lauren received the 2017 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching and the 2020 Mentor Award. Lauren has written and performed her own one person show FURY! at the 2022 United Solo on Theatre Row, winning Best Comedy, at the 2022 Orlando International Fringe Festival where FURY! received Critics Choice for Best Specialty Solo and was named one of the Best in Fest. FURY! has also played at the Phoenicia Fringe Festival, at the Denizen Theatre in New Paltz, NY and at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Lauren’s historical revenge fantasy, suff*rage has been workshopped at Seattle Public Theatre, was a part of the 2022 International Commedia dell’Arte Festival, and was a finalist in Dragonfly Theatre’s 2022 Take Flight Festival of New Plays. Lauren is currently a Sarah Isom Fellow, using her funding to support research and writing on her new play, Madame Zarechnaya.

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